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Kerstin Enflo. Photo.

Kerstin Enflo

Professor

Kerstin Enflo. Photo.

Urban planning and town foundations

Author

  • Kerstin Enflo
  • Alexandra L. Cermeño

Summary, in English

Urban growth is crucial for modernisation, and the wave of new towns in China since the 1980s is one example of a strategy employed by policymakers to encourage the process. This column analyses the long-run success of a town foundation policy in Sweden between 1570 and 1810. While the ‘artificially’ created towns failed to grow in the short term, they eventually began to grow and thrive, and today are as resilient as their medieval counterparts.

Department/s

  • Department of Economic History

Publishing year

2019-01-03

Language

English

Document type

Web publication

Publisher

voxeu.org

Topic

  • Economic History

Keywords

  • urbanisation

Status

Published

Project

  • The evolution regional economies in the Nordic region – A long run approach